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Primary and Secondary Sources


Photo Analysis

Civil War soldier photo analysis

Family Making Violets

122 Sullivan St. 2nd Floor rear. Leveroni family. Earn 4 cents a gross making violets. Can make 20 gross a day when children work all day. Father has work. Mrs. Leveroni; Tessie Leveroni, age 9; Stephen Leveroni, age 6; Margaret Leveroni, age 7; Josephine Cordono, age 10. These children work on Saturdays on afternoons after 3 o'clock, and evenings until 8 or 9. Location: New York, New York (State). Jan. 1908.


Child Labor Photo Sets:

Agriculture


Canneries


Coal Mines


Glass Factories


Mills


Other Factories


Street Trades


Tenement Homework


Miscellaneous Work


Lewis W. Hine

Lewis W. Hine took photographs of children working throughout the United States for the National Child Labor Committee. He was a schoolteacher who felt passionately that children should not be working, but going to school. He decided to quit his job and take pictures of children working. His "investigative photography" is now housed in the Library of Congress. He wrote information about each photograph. These captions are listed under the title links to the photo.


Children at Work--Some of the Best Photographs


Sources:

Hine, Lewis W. "National Child Labor Committee Collection." Library of Congress. 2010.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcarrange.html


National Archives. Photo Analysis Worksheet. National Archives. 2010.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf